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• WVS Settlement, Fairford. Ivor Tully, an evacuee from Barking

  (art) Made by: Allan, Rosemary

  image: A young boy sits on a chair, looking out of the frame towards the right. He is wearing wellingtons and shorts and appears to be in a domestic setting.

• HANDING OVER WVS WAR NURSERY, MANOR HOUSE, WENDOVER, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, ENGLAND, UK, 1941

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer

  Lady Iris Capel (centre) chats with Matron Mrs Silcock (left) and Mr McCoy of the American Red Cross. They are playing with Elizabeth and Eleanor Harper and Alex and Frank Wilson at the Manor House war nursery in Wendover, following the unveiling...

• Putting on Anti-gas Protective Clothing

  (art) Made by: Dunbar, Evelyn Mary 1940

  image: Composite image of a woman being assisted into an anti-gas suit by another woman

• A Hospital Supply Depot

  (art) Made by: Gabain, Ethel Leontine 1940

  image: WVS women at work at their sewing machines in a crowded room with large windows, overlooking some trees.

• WVS Bandage-making

  (art) Made by: Hudson, Eleanor Erlund 1942

  image: Nurses gathered around a table laden with white sheets. They are tearing the sheets into smaller strips for bandages.

• Help Your Fellow Citizens To Have a Home Again

  (posters) Made by: Unknown (artist)

  whole: the photographic image is covers the main. The title and text, in orange, are located across the top and imposed over the image. A white inset, bearing the W V S Civil Defence emblem, is placed bottom right and carries further text. A band of...

• WVS Clothing Store, Bristol

  (art) Made by: Allan, Rosemary

  image: a woman sits at her desk in the centre of a clothing store. She is dwarfed by the large boxes of supplies and mounds of clothing that surround her.

• WVS Settlement, Fairford. Mrs Young, a helper

  (art) Made by: Allan, Rosemary

  image: An oval image of a woman wearing an patterned apron sitting on a bench next to a table. She sits with her arms crossed, staring out of the right of the frame. On the table are two enamel jugs

• WVS Cutting Out Pyjamas for WAAF

  (art) Made by: Hudson, Eleanor Erlund

  image: two WVS women stand on either side of a table cutting out patterns from striped fabric.

• WVS Cutting Calico for Emergency Cots

  (art) Made by: Hudson, Eleanor Erlund

  image: a WVS lady leans over a table covered in swathes of white calico. She is cutting it into strips. More fabric is piled onto a chair in the foreground. In the background a second woman sits, apparently motionless in the corner.